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PLATE XIX.
BUST OF AN OLD MAN.
A bust of an old man, nearly bald, with the head bent forward
and slightly turned to the right, and with high and deformed
shoulders, over which are remains of drapery. It has been
generally, though, perhaps, without sufficient reason, called
Diogenes. The wrinkled character of the throat evidently denotes
a person of advanced age. Visconti, in his Iconographie Grecque,ci)
has published a bust of that philosopher; but it bears, we think,
but little resemblance to the one before us ; while another, which
the same author has engraved as Carneades, is, in many respects,
strikingly similar/23 In this latter bust, which exhibits the name
of Carneades inscribed upon the drapery, the shape of the head,
the profile of the nose, brow, and eye, are almost identical with
those of the bust we are describing. The reason of the bust
in question being considered that of Carneades was owing to the
name having been found on the drapery of the bust. There is
also in the collection of the Villa Albani a curious relief repre-
senting Diogenes in the earthen cask, or pithos, which, according
to some writers, he made his abode ;(3) the general character and
attitude of the figure is not unlike that of the bust before us, but
the scale is too small to admit of any accurate comparison of the
features.
1 PI. 22, Nos. 3, 4.
2 PI. 19, Nos. 1, 2.
3 Winckelmann, PI. 159, No. 352.
BUST OF AN OLD MAN.
A bust of an old man, nearly bald, with the head bent forward
and slightly turned to the right, and with high and deformed
shoulders, over which are remains of drapery. It has been
generally, though, perhaps, without sufficient reason, called
Diogenes. The wrinkled character of the throat evidently denotes
a person of advanced age. Visconti, in his Iconographie Grecque,ci)
has published a bust of that philosopher; but it bears, we think,
but little resemblance to the one before us ; while another, which
the same author has engraved as Carneades, is, in many respects,
strikingly similar/23 In this latter bust, which exhibits the name
of Carneades inscribed upon the drapery, the shape of the head,
the profile of the nose, brow, and eye, are almost identical with
those of the bust we are describing. The reason of the bust
in question being considered that of Carneades was owing to the
name having been found on the drapery of the bust. There is
also in the collection of the Villa Albani a curious relief repre-
senting Diogenes in the earthen cask, or pithos, which, according
to some writers, he made his abode ;(3) the general character and
attitude of the figure is not unlike that of the bust before us, but
the scale is too small to admit of any accurate comparison of the
features.
1 PI. 22, Nos. 3, 4.
2 PI. 19, Nos. 1, 2.
3 Winckelmann, PI. 159, No. 352.